Ed Doggrell - title contender (Carl Evans)
It was a good day for West Mercian jockeys at Buckfastleigh in Devon on Sunday, with wins in five of the seven races, headed by a treble for Ed Doggrell (pictured above - Carl Evans), expected to be a title contender this season riding for the powerful Chris Barber and Will Biddick yards. He picked up his three victories on West Country-trained horses – the maidens Strictly Commercial and Strolling Along, and Just Loose Change in the Mixed Open.
Joe O’Shea - trains the impressive Buckfastleigh winner Le Boum Retourne (Carl Evans)
Elsewhere on the card, James King scored on Soldier Unknown – an appropriately named 500th landmark career winner for trainer Alan Hill on Remembrance Sunday – and Joe O’Shea made the long journey down from Cheshire to take the closing Intermediate with ex-Irish Le Boum Retourne, who was impressive in the hands of Henry Crow in landing his trainer’s second success of the season. Like so many of O’Shea’s horses, Le Boum Retourne is qualified with a Northern Area certificate.